Example sentences of "penalty [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 2 | On Sept. 14 , 1989 , the Justice Ministry announced a series of reforms to abolish torture and the death penalty for 13 different crimes which did not include murder and political violence . |
| 3 | The outgoing criminal code had provided for the death penalty for 18 kinds of crimes . |
| 4 | The Middlesex batsman , left out of the senior trip to India and the ‘ A ’ team tour of Australia , has paid the penalty for two bust-ups with his county and a lack of form in Tests . |
| 5 | Thomas ran through and was pulled down as he rounded Walton , Dicks scoring with the penalty after 72 minutes . |
| 6 | Everybody 's player of the season , Mark Prudhoe , saved from Alan Johnson and Andy Pilling , but Quakers thought they were worth a penalty after 71 minutes when Mardenborough appeared to be pulled down by Jones , but referee Burns , who up to that point had been whistle happy , turned the appeals down . |
| 7 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |
| 8 | The scoreline was cruel to a Welsh side who shaded a tight , tough first half in which they shook Australia in line-out and scrum , taking the lead with a Colin Stephens penalty after 32 minutes . |
| 9 | Matthew Hunt converted a penalty after five minutes ; then Fowler netted his first after a move started by Nikki Harman . |
| 10 | Peter Johnston kicked a penalty after 19 minute for St Aloysius when the Gala backs strayed offside to make the score 5-3 for Gala , but a minute before the interval Gala scored a bizarre try . |
| 11 | Rovers might have had a penalty after 29 minutes when Aldridge was felled by Prior but referee John Lloyd of Wrexham dismissed the appeals . |
| 12 | Parry kicked a penalty after three minutes before Stephens replied for Llanelli . |
| 13 | He may also drop his ball back into play , though no nearer the hole , when given relief by the rules or under penalty of one shot if he thinks the ball is unplayable . |
| 14 | The third option is to drop the penalty of one stroke , as far back as you wish , keeping the ball 's entry into the hazard ( marked B ) between the spot on which the ball is dropped and the hole . |
| 15 | Although the charge carried a maximum penalty of one year 's imprisonment and a $100,000 fine , Barry 's sentence was widely considered to be harsh for a first offence . |
| 16 | Thus , to return to the arguments mobilized against the CLRC 's proposal : the chief difference in protection of the vulnerable between the present system and the CLRC 's is that the latter had a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , whereas life imprisonment is available where a defence of diminished responsibility succeeds ; and the fundamental ethical problems are now swept under the carpet by a combination of a stretched diagnosis of ‘ abnormality of mind ’ and the ample judicial sentencing discretion , whereas the CLRC 's proposal attempted to make the issues justiciable . |
| 17 | The difference between an offence of reckless driving ( maximum penalty of two years ) and one of causing death by reckless driving ( maximum penalty of five years ) may simply be one of chance . |
| 18 | Another aggravated offence is assault with intent to resist arrest or to prevent a lawful arrest , contrary to section 38 of the 1861 Act and carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 19 | The Mental Health Act 1983 contains a somewhat similar offence of ill-treating or wilfully neglecting a patient in a mental hospital , which has a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 20 | This offence , with its maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment , encompasses two classes of weapon : first , an article made or adapted for use as a weapon ; and second , any article intended for such use . |
| 21 | Other types of fraud and mistake are held to be insufficient for the offence of rape , and bring the case within the lesser offence of procuring a woman by false pretences or false representations to have unlawful sexual intercourse ( section 3 , Sexual Offences Act 1956 , carrying a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment ) . |
| 22 | Insider dealings are prohibited , and those who commit such dealings are liable to prosecution in the criminal court with a maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | Eventually in 1275 the first Statute of Westminster appears to have provided that the ravishment of any woman was an offence punishable with a penalty of two years ' imprisonment and ransom and in 1285 the second Statute of Westminster turned this into a capital offence . |
| 24 | Defendants were frequently prepared to plead guilty under the old law with its maximum penalty of two years ' imprisonment . |
| 25 | Contempt carries a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment , and is the only serious crime in English law which is triable by judges alone . |
| 26 | Characters suffer an M penalty of -2 here ( to a minimum of 1 ) . |
| 27 | Common assault is the lowest rung of the ‘ ladder ’ of non-fatal offences , with a maximum penalty of six months ' imprisonment , and it is discussed in more detail below . |
| 28 | There is a £250 arrangement fee and an early redemption penalty of six months ' interest . |
| 29 | Suicide and attempted suicide ceased to be a crime when the Suicide Act 1961 became law , in recognition of the right to self-determination , but there remains an offence of aiding , abetting , counselling , or procuring the suicide of another which carries a maximum penalty of fourteen years ' imprisonment . |
| 30 | The difference between an offence of reckless driving ( maximum penalty of two years ) and one of causing death by reckless driving ( maximum penalty of five years ) may simply be one of chance . |